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Chapter 838 Poverty

The Empress Dowager left the palace and moved to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to recuperate.

She took away all the female officials and eunuchs who were useful to her, but did not take Lu Xinyao with her.

Lu Xinyao originally wanted to go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple with the Empress Dowager.

But the Empress Dowager felt that a place like the Imperial Ancestral Temple was not suitable for a young girl like Lu Xinyao, and Lu Xinyao was not a member of the royal family, so she was not qualified to enter the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

In the end, Lu Xinyao was sent back to the Lu family.

The Lu family today is no longer what it used to be. Even though Lu Xinyao was prepared, she was still shocked when she saw the situation at home with her own eyes.

All the valuable things in the house were sold. They had no savings, and if they wanted to eat and live, they could only sell the slaves for money.

Without servants to serve them, they had to do the laundry, cooking, chopping wood and making firewood themselves.

All the things that Lu Xinyao brought out of the palace were sold. After the money was converted, some was kept for household use and the rest was used to buy medicine for Lu Xinyao's father.

Her father's leg injury has not healed yet and he needs medicine, which is another considerable expense.

The Lu family was originally waiting for the Empress Dowager to rescue them, but after learning that she had moved to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, their last bit of hope was dashed.

Lu Xinyao was forced to change into a coarse cloth dress.

She worked with her mother, and although the work didn't seem like much, it was actually very arduous.

In just three short days, Lu Xinyao couldn't bear it anymore.

She looked at her nails that were covered in dirt and remembered the instructions given by the Empress Dowager before she left.

"If you are not happy in the Lu family, go find Princess Hua'an. I have already informed Princess Hua'an, and she will choose a good marriage for you in the capital."

Lu Xinyao was timid and shy. She had never met Princess Hua An before and was a little scared, so she didn't plan to look for Princess Hua An at first.

But now she has changed her mind.

The Empress Dowager was right. The Lu family was already in this state. If she didn't establish herself, she would really have to live a life of hardship and suffering as a commoner.

Such a hard life would be torture for her if she lived for even one day, let alone for the rest of her life.

The next day she packed herself up and ran to Princess Hua'an's mansion.

Lu Xinyao couldn't speak, so she just cried and cried until she was out of breath.

When Princess Hua'an saw a lady from a noble family fall into this state, she couldn't help but think of her own daughter. Her daughter would soon marry the Prince of Jing County, and her life in the future would probably not be much easier.

Princess Hua'an couldn't bear it, so she decided to let Lu Xinyao stay in the mansion for a while.

She planned to find a marriage for Lu Xinyao during this period to fulfill the Empress Dowager's instructions.

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In the palace.

Chen Wanyi practiced suona for dozens of days and was finally able to play a short piece of music.

Of course, it is not a difficult piece of music like "Guanxianyue", but the simplest folk tune.

She was satisfied with this, and after dressing up carefully, she ran excitedly to find the emperor.

As a result, he was stopped outside the imperial study.

Eunuch Chang said politely.

"His Majesty said he is busy and has no time to see you. Please go back first."

Chen Wanyi was unwilling to give up just like that.

She squatted near the imperial study, holding her suona.

Luo Qinghan was not deliberately being perfunctory to Chen Wanyi, he was really busy recently.

He planned to tour the south next month, but as soon as this proposal was made, it was strongly opposed by the Minister of Revenue.

The Minister of Revenue cried and cried about his poverty like crazy. He really cried, with tears streaming down his face.

He said while crying.

"We have 30,000 troops sent to Nanyue for support. We can't stop supplying food and fodder. We have to spend money every day, and silver is being sent out like water.

There was also the snowstorm in Fengyang County, which cost a large sum of money.

The summer flood is about to come, and the river dam in the south needs to be reinforced, which requires another large sum of money.

If the southern tour is added, the national treasury will be empty immediately.

The treasury is really out of money!

If your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can go to the treasury and take a look yourself!"

Luo Qinghan actually went to the national treasury for a tour.

It turned out that the Minister of Revenue was right. The entire warehouse was empty and the amount of silver and money stored inside was pitifully small.

The total amount of that money was not even as much as the deposit of the palace's Shaofu.

Luo Qinghan couldn't believe it.

"What about the taxes paid by various places every year? Even if there are expenditures, they shouldn't be so little, right?!"

He even began to suspect that someone was embezzling money from the national treasury.

The Minister of Revenue wiped away his tears, took out an abacus, and began to calculate the emperor's accounts.

The calculated result is exactly the same as the balance in the national treasury.

No one embezzled money from the treasury.

In fact, there is only this much money in the treasury.

Poverty in capital letters!

Because of this incident, the emperor was in a very bad mood.

He returned to the palace and settled the accounts again alone in the imperial study.

He was so overwhelmed with all the calculations that he had to make, so when Chen Wanyi came to ask for a meeting at this time, he naturally rejected her without hesitation.

The final result was consistent with that given by the Minister of Revenue.

His Majesty the Emperor is autistic online!

When he walked out of the imperial study, it was already dark outside.

He said to Eunuch Chang as usual.

"Let's go to Yunxiu Palace."

After he said this, he realized that the imperial concubine was still under house arrest.

Luo Qinghan became more and more irritated.

Eunuch Chang saw that he looked unhappy and asked cautiously.

"Return to Weiyang Palace?"

Luo Qinghan said nothing and walked out with his head down.

Eunuch Chang didn't dare to ask any more questions, and just followed with his men.

Chen Wanyi had been hiding near the imperial study. She waited for a long time and finally the emperor came out.

She originally wanted to rush out, but then she thought it would be stupid to do so.

So she retracted the foot she had stepped forward, picked up the suona, and played it with all her strength.

The shrill sound of suona followed.

The birds flying nearby were frightened and fled in all directions.

Luo Qinghan paused.

He looked in the direction where the suona sound came from, listening to the melody that was like a magic sound piercing his ears, and felt his temples throbbing.

The already bad mood index plummeted.

The pent-up anger exploded immediately.

Luo Qinghan frowned and asked in a cold voice.

"Who is playing the suona?"

Immediately, two young eunuchs followed the sound.

When they came back, they were followed by a concubine wearing a smoky pink skirt. It was Chen Wanyi.

Chen Wanyi was holding a suona in her hand.

She bowed shyly.

"I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

Luo Qinghan: "Why are you playing the suona here?"

Chen Wanyi thought that playing the suona was indeed effective and immediately attracted the emperor's attention.

She blushed and said, "I just learned to play the suona recently, so I wanted to play it for Your Majesty. I just performed poorly, I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

Luo Qinghan: "Since you know you are ugly, why do you come out to show yourself?"

Chen Wanyi: “…”

Luo Qinghan: "You are playing the suona in front of me in the middle of the night, and it sounds so bad. Do you want to send me away with the suona?"

Chen Wanyi was shocked.

Eunuch Chang knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please be careful with your words!"

All the palace maids and eunuchs knelt down as well.

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Good morning everyone!

I suddenly realized that there is no decent male supporting role in this article!

I mean, there isn't even a single male supporting character who likes the female lead and would compete with the male lead for her!

Will this make my Xixi seem particularly unattractive?

Should I add a male supporting role like this?

Today is my birthday, I don’t ask for anything else but monthly votes!

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(End of this chapter)